Ah, spring. The time when every team starts out on the same level, and anyone has the chance to make it to the World Series. So let’s have a round of applause for overachievers such as the Kansas City Royals, via Joe Posansnki.

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On the other hand, it doesn’t take much to turn even the most hardened fans. Mets closer Bobby Parnell went on the disabled list after just one game. Let the teeth-gnashing begin.

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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.